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Axiom of Dependent Choice

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Reason: First published version: the axiom of dependent choice, stated for an entire binary relation on a nonempty set, so that recursive constructions depending on it can reference it inline.

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Let SS be a nonempty set, let N\mathbb{N} denote the natural numbers, and let RR be a binary relation on SS, that is, a subset of the Cartesian product S×SS\times S. Assume that for every xSx\in S there exists ySy\in S with (x,y)R(x,y)\in R. Let sSs\in S.

Then there exists a sequence (am)mN(a_m)_{m\in\mathbb{N}} in SS such that a1=sa_1=s and (am,am+1)R(a_m,a_{m+1})\in R for every mNm\in\mathbb{N}.

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